'Deep' in the Bible

And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.

And the Lord God sent a deep sleep on the man, and took one of the bones from his side while he was sleeping, joining up the flesh again in its place:

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;

And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were shut, and the rain from heaven was stopped.

Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep came on Abram, and a dark cloud of fear.

Even by the God of your father, who will be your help, and by the Ruler of all, who will make you full with blessings from heaven on high, blessings of the deep stretched out under the earth, blessings of the breasts and of the fertile body:

They were covered by the deep waters: like a stone they went down under the waves.

By your breath the waves were massed together, the flowing waters were lifted up like a pillar; the deep waters became solid in the heart of the sea.

The fountain made by the chiefs, made deep by the great ones of the people, with the law-givers' rod, and with their sticks. Then from the waste land they went on to Mattanah:

So today be certain, and keep the knowledge deep in your hearts, that the Lord is God, in heaven on high and here on earth; there is no other God.

Keep these words, which I say to you this day, deep in your hearts;

For the Lord your God is guiding you into a good land, a land of water-springs, of fountains, and deep streams flowing out from the valleys and the hills;

So keep these words deep in your heart and in your soul, and have them fixed on your hand for a sign and marked on your brow;

For my wrath is a flaming fire, burning to the deep parts of the underworld, burning up the earth with her increase, and firing the deep roots of the mountains.

Moses said to them, Let the words which I have said to you today go deep into your hearts, and give orders to your children to do every word of this law.

And of Joseph he said, Let the blessing of the Lord be on his land; for the good things of heaven on high, and the deep waters flowing under the earth,

Then Jael, Heber's wife, took a tent-pin and a hammer and went up to him quietly, driving the pin into his head, and it went through his head into the earth, for he was in a deep sleep from weariness; and so he came to his end.

And David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone and sent it from his leather band straight at the Philistine, and the stone went deep into his brow, and he went down to the earth, falling on his face.

So David took the spear and the vessel of water from Saul's head; and they got away without any man seeing them, or being conscious of their coming, or awaking; for they were all sleeping because a deep sleep from the Lord had come on them.

Then the deep beds of the sea were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of the Lord's wrath, because of the breath of his mouth.

And in the middle of the day, Elijah made sport of them, saying, Give louder cries, for he is a god; he may be deep in thought, or he may have gone away for some purpose, or he may be on a journey, or by chance he is sleeping and has to be made awake.

And with the stones he made an altar to the name of the Lord; and he made a deep drain all round the altar, great enough to take two measures of seed.

By you the sea was parted before them, so that they went through the sea on dry land; and those who went after them went down into the deep, like a stone into great waters.

In troubled thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep comes on men,

For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.

Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;

And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark?

Man puts an end to the dark, searching out to the farthest limit the stones of the deep places of the dark.

He makes a deep mine far away from those living in the light of day; when they go about on the earth, they have no knowledge of those who are under them, who are hanging far from men, twisting from side to side on a cord.

He makes deep ways, cut through the rock, and his eye sees everything of value.

The deep waters say, It is not in me: and the sea says, It is not with me.

After I had said what was in my mind, they were quiet and let my words go deep into their hearts;

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep comes on men, while they take their rest on their beds;

Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?

The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.

The deep is boiling like a pot of spices, and the sea like a perfume-vessel.

After him his way is shining, so that the deep seems white.

He has made a hole deep in the earth, and is falling into the hole which he has made

The birds of the air and the fish of the sea, and whatever goes through the deep waters of the seas.

Then the deep beds of the waters were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of your words of wrath, O Lord, because of the breath from your mouth.

He makes the waters of the sea come together in a mass; he keeps the deep seas in store-houses.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judging is like the great deep; O Lord, you give life to man and beast.

My heart was burning in my breast; while I was deep in thought the fire was lighted; then I said with my tongue,

He took me up out of a deep waste place, out of the soft and sticky earth; he put my feet on a rock, and made my steps certain.

Deep is sounding to deep at the noise of your waterfalls; all your waves have gone rolling over me.

Fear and shaking have come over me, with deep fear I am covered.

Or make discovery of our secret purpose? The design is framed with care; and the inner thought of a man, and his heart, is deep.

The Lord said, I will make them come back from Bashan, and from the deep parts of the sea;

My feet are deep in the soft earth, where there is no support; I have come into deep waters, the waves are flowing over me.

Take me from the grip of the sticky earth, so that I may not go down into it; let me be lifted up from the deep waters.

Let me not be covered by the flowing waters; let not the deep waters go over my head, and let me not be shut up in the underworld.

You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.

Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts.

At the voice of your wrath, O God of Jacob, deep sleep has overcome carriage and horse.

The waters saw you, O God; the waters saw you, they were in fear: even the deep was troubled.

The rocks of the waste land were broken by his power, and he gave them drink as out of the deep waters.

You made ready a place for it, so that it might take deep root, and it sent out its branches over all the land.

O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:

The deep places of the earth are in his hand; and the tops of the mountains are his.

By his word the Red Sea was made dry: and he took them through the deep waters as through the waste land.

They see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.

The sailors go up to heaven, and down into the deep; their souls are wasted because of their trouble.

Out of the deep have I sent up my cry to you, O Lord.

The Lord has done whatever was pleasing to him, in heaven, and on the earth, in the seas and in all the deep waters.

Let burning flames come down on them: let them be put into the fire, and into deep waters, so that they may not get up again.

Give praise to the Lord from the earth, you great sea-beasts, and deep places:

By his knowledge the deep was parted, and dew came dropping from the skies.

Let them not go from your eyes; keep them deep in your heart.

When there was no deep I was given birth, when there were no fountains flowing with water.

When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep:

When he made strong the skies overhead: when the fountains of the deep were fixed:

But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.

The words of a man's mouth are like deep waters: the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing stream.

Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.

The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin, and will not even take it to his mouth again.

The purpose in the heart of a man is like deep water, but a man of good sense will get it out.

The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.

Foolish ways are deep-seated in the heart of a child, but the rod of punishment will send them far from him.

For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.

The heaven is high and the earth is deep, and the hearts of kings may not be searched out.

The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin: lifting it again to his mouth is a weariness to him.

Far off is true existence, and very deep; who may have knowledge of it?

Much water may not put out love, or the deep waters overcome it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would be judged a price not great enough.

Make a request to the Lord your God for a sign, a sign in the deep places of the underworld, or in the high heavens.

For this cause the Lord is sending on them the waters of the River, deep and strong, even the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it will come up through all its streams, overflowing all its edges:

Those who see you will be looking on you with care, they will be in deep thought, saying, Is this the troubler of the earth, the shaker of kingdoms?

For the Lord has sent on you a spirit of deep sleep; and by him your eyes, the prophets, are shut, and your heads, the seers, are covered.

Cursed are those who go deep to keep their designs secret from the Lord, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who has knowledge of our acts?

For a place of fire has long been ready; yes, it has been made ready for the king; he has made it deep and wide: it is massed with fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of fire, puts a light to it.

This is the word of the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, and a road through the deep waters;

Make a song, O heavens, for the Lord has done it: give a loud cry, you deep parts of the earth: let your voices be loud in song, you mountains, and you woods with all your trees: for the Lord has taken up the cause of Jacob, and will let his glory be seen in Israel.

Who says to the deep, Be dry, and I will make your rivers dry:

Did you not make the sea dry, the waters of the great deep? did you not make the deep waters of the sea a way for the Lord's people to go through?

He who made them go through the deep waters, like a horse in the waste land?

Let your eyes be looking down from heaven, from your holy and beautiful house: where is your deep feeling, the working of your power? do not keep back the moving of your pity and your mercies:

And they never said, Where is the Lord, who took us up out of the land of Egypt; who was our guide through the waste of sand, through an unplanted land full of deep holes, through a dry land of deep shade, which no one went through and where no man was living?

For go over to the sea-lands of Kittim and see; send to Kedar and give deep thought to it; and see if there has ever been such a thing.

Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.

Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

Is evil to be the reward of good? for they have made a deep hole for my soul. Keep in mind how I took my place before you, to say a good word for them so that your wrath might be turned away from them.